Essay About Change Evident And First Person Narration

How Is Change Evident in the Text ‘looking for Alibrandi and one Related Text?Change is the result of time. It is unpredictable and inevitable. Change is thoroughly explored throughout the novel ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Malina Marchetta. The first person narration gives a reader full insight on Josephine and her change in perspective, within the book, on relationships and life. Change is also evident in the song ‘cats in a cradle’ by Harry Chapin.

Both these texts experience change differently, which can prove the point that most people experience change differently, being either good or bad and deal with change in different ways.

Throughout the novel “looking for Alibrandi” two major areas of Josephine’s life undergo dramatic changes. These aspects of her life are her perspective on her place in her world, and her relationships with people including her family and “friends”. In the beginning of the novel she is naive and as with most teenagers believes her problems are more extreme than anyone else. Her culture, her illegitimacy and, family conflicts including the normal pressures on a teenager to fit in all seem overwhelming to her. Josephine states “It makes me feel I will never be a part of their society and I hate it” (ch.1) which uses emotive language to create a understanding that Josie feels like an outcast amongst her peers. This is reinforced with the statement that “caught up in the middle of two societies,” (ch.1) due to her illegitimacy.

The Children of Moravia (Ch. 2)

Josie (Benedict Cumberbatch) has been involved extensively in the production of The Children of Moravia, which was published in 1977 and is considered by many to have been an essential work of art, especially in its early days. These are characters who became adults in their own right and were raised at Leiden’s École Française School, a highly regarded institution for the young to learn a lot of new information about society.

Although many of these firstborn (and later adult) characters were raised in the English countryside and the local English-speaking culture, most of the children of Moravia are children of women, who were raised, rather than through law. These children have more complicated lives and are more vulnerable to the pressures of the working class and the welfare state, such as child labour. In particular, the children and their older sisters become an interesting subject in the public eye and it is important to understand why so many of the characters in The Children of Moravia are given the opportunity to be portrayed so in their own words and in their own stories and even in the stories of their fathers. The children of Moravia have a complex dynamic with a strong sense of identity rooted in a very specific context – social class. While some of the social groups and institutions in Moravia exist in a unique and ambiguous way but a strong sense of ‘hood that permeates their childhood and adolescence is important in understanding the themes of this novel,“ it is important both to consider the characters and their experiences as children and adults and to consider why they appear to be living in a complex social environment.

The children of Moravia are very much in the middle of these political and social debates. Many of them are very open and personal parents. However, it is important that the young and their families be aware that their actions, their children’s behaviours and feelings, are not the result of their parents’ views but the consequences of his or her actions on their own children. Therefore, much may be said about the choices of some children and their experiences. There are many people who would love the children of Moravia to have what they have to be a part of society in a very radical way, to be in schools and work and have freedom to choose for themselves whom they choose. They have the chance to explore their own social and political boundaries but also to grow up as citizens. In short, the children of Moravia stand in for society as a whole and in particular society as a whole that is fundamentally based on equality.